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It looks like the my Mrs relatives place went there last year to show my lad the elephants that he hated none of the 15 or so Nellie's looked at all friendly and we declined the free ride I know its their living but its not for me

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It looks like the my Mrs relatives place went there last year to show my lad the elephants that he hated none of the 15 or so Nellie's looked at all friendly and we declined the free ride I know its their living but its not for me

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I want to know who is going to pay for the food, maintenance and upkeep of the thousands of elephants in Thailand if they cannot attract the tourist dollars? Bearing in mind that most tourists will want an up-close experience with the elephants.. not observing them in their natural habitat from a safe distance (of course they can't actually all live in their natural habitat now, as a result of massive deforestation)

According to Performing Animal Welfare Society website, each elephant will cost $70,000 annually!

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Looks like that 1 had enough, it along with all the others held in captivity should be allowed back in the wild.

It's a wonderful sentiment, but unfortunately without a shred of reality. 'Back in the wild?' Do you mean where our houses presently stand? Or where our kid's schools were built? Perhaps they can roam freely over the lands taken over by the roads we drive to get to the market? Sure, there are pockets of 'wild' left in Thailand, where 'some' elephants are left to live in peace. But the herd size is 'controlled' (a polite way to say that some of the babies are not permitted to survive,) so they don't outstrip the available food supply in those 'pockets.' (This is what modern Game Laws all over the world serve to do... maintain healthy herd size for available habitat.) Somebody, be it Mother Nature or Man, has to feed the elephants. We've taken away most of the Nature.

If we could remove 90% of the cities, towns, highways, and other man-made constructions that decimated the 'wild' lands where elephants once roamed freely, then it would be a perfect habitat for released elephants. There would be plenty of room and plenty of FOOD to support wild elephants. But right now, that just isn't the case. Sad to say it, but that's the facts. We have destroyed the natural habitats for so many animals, including elephants, with our rampant desire to build, build, build, for profit, profit, profit.

As it stands, we have two choices. Feed the elephants (and someone has to pay for that food,) or dispose of them. They won't fit in our back yards.